Chamber and committees

The Total Local Government resource settlement each year since 2007-08, along with calculations of the year-on-year percentage change and the cumulative change over the specified timeframes is set out below. This is split into 2 parts, 2007-08 to 2012-13 and 2013-14 to 2025-26. Extended time series comparisons of the Local Government Settlement are inappropriate and misleading due to the impact of the Concordat and machinery of government changes such as the transfer of police and fire services out of local government which create discontinuities in the time series data. The data presented for the Local Government Settlement is taken from the relevant Local Government Circular published following the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order in each year. It is important to note that additional funding is often allocated to local authorities in-year and processed through a retrospective redetermination in the subsequent year’s Local Government Finance Order. By extension such funding is not reflected in this time series data but is published in the relevant Local Government Finance Circular and is available at Local government finance circulars - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)